Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Curiouser and curiouser

I am looking forward to seeing what Tim Burton does with Alice (Alice in Wonderland due for release early 2010).

I love these stories. They played a significant part in my childhood.

As far as I’m concerned this is Mr Burton’s best opportunity to date to really bugger up a story that I care about. The photos released so far look very typically Burton, perhaps too much so, though I remain hopeful.

To be fair, it must be pretty difficult to do a good rendition of Alice. The best I saw were two Soviet cartoons (Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass), done sometime in the 1980s I think. Though short, they managed to capture the dream-like effect very well, and it was interesting that they had Alice as a girl with dark hair, like the Alice Liddell for whom the stories were written – Carroll never liked Tenniel’s version of Alice.